ABSTRACT
Social network analysis has become a vital tool in the study of socio-economic phenomena. It has allowed identifying a heterogeneous and asymmetric distribution of knowledge within industrial clusters. Our work studies the contribution of brokerage activities to the overall knowledge and innovative capacity of the cluster. We study two clusters located in the Spanish Valencia region (Toys and Ceramic tiles), to identify the contribution of five different brokerage functions to both the technical and business networks of the cluster in the context of the Global Value Chain (GVC). Results reveal differences in the brokerage contribution depending on the characteristics of the knowledge shared and the type of cluster.
